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  Kj -2 years ago

  Does the word trauma appear in scripture.?

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  Kj -2 years ago

  I think it is important to make a distinction here.....much of, if not all of, what you speak of as trauma is really the impact and result of sin.  To say a person needs to deal with their trauma in some ways puts the blame for that trauma on them.

  Sin is the culprit of that trauma.  The one who sinned against them is responsible for that trauma.  Sometimes, that responsibility lied with the person!

  Until the one who created the trauma deals according to the law of Gd with that trauma, it will not be resolved in the spiritual realm for either party.  If they do not resolve it, GD will resolve it for them through His wrath and judgment!

  I can just feel the pride of the children of Israel as Gd's word and faithfulness healed much of their wounds when the sea overtook Pharaoh and his army in justice for sin!

  As we see today, people find healing in justice!

  I cannot help but wonder if Joseph felt the same when GD sent the drought!

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Tzedakah occurs when one gives to another

  As a voluntary act. Nothing is expected in return. One gives from one's abundance to another who lacks.

  Tzedakah is the quintessential mitzvah.

  Why? Perhaps because Hashem also created all of Creation as a voluntary act, out  of abundance, expecting nothing in return (although a thank you is always appreciated by both Hashem and people)

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  And... .  By both loving and fearing Hashem out of gratitude, we become his people without which He cannot be a King, AND we give Him a dwelling place down here below. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  What does Hashem want?

  Being that He created all of creation, and each of us, infusing us with a spark of Himself, it is "poshit" that He desires that we appreciate this by both loving and fearing ("awe")  Him.

  Every parent who has likewise "created" a child, also desires that his children appreciate this fact by having the child both love and fear ("awe") his parent. 

  Woe to the atheist who obviously doesn't love or fear Him who He denies altogether,  and woe to the child who doesn't  love and fear his parent. 

  Both rooted in gratitude. 

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  Sara Metzger -2 years ago

  Someone asks...

  what does bittel mean? Please translate.

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  A tzaddik giving an opinion or a psak

  Is conveying Hashem's inner will and wisdom. He is completely bittul. 

  But....in every instance we have different opinions and decisions in the Gemora where both sides, which were incompatible with the other,  were the decisions of tzaddikim who were totally bittul and aligned with Hashem. 

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  Sara Metzger -2 years ago

  Someone asks...

  Eventually we have to find a reason otherwise how to we articulate it in our world? a kol without a vav how do we make use of it?

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  Is that then the Kol Damamadak ? 

  The still small voice?

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  "No thought can grasp Him"

  There are mitzvos of thought, mitzvos of speech and mitzvos of action.

  Perhaps, mitzvos of action, implementing Hashem's innermost will and wisdom, does indeed "grasp him". Like lighting a menorah. 

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    Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

    Or, maybe we can "grasp Him" when learning Torah. 

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  Rina -2 years ago

  Thank you for translating the voice 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  A spoiled rich kid who inherits (bread if shame) and

  Wastes the inheritance on nonsense, is "squandering" the money. 

  One who takes his resources and puts it into an enterprise hoping for a profitable return, is "investing" his resources 

  Hashem took His "resources" and INVESTED them into Creation, into each if us, hoping for a profitable return. I.e. to gain that which He didn't have before. Namely  a "a dira bitachtonim" and a people over whom to be a King. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Yosef went from prison on trumped up charges

  To rule. 

  So too the Alter Rebbe went from prison on trumped up.charges to "rule" the (Jewish,) world. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  "Sometimes people are unable to speak because of shame"

  It's well known that many holocaust survivors never spoke about it to their children. Sometimes they do to Spielberg. 

  This is not our of shame. Like Mark Twains quip about the Grand Canyon, there are no words to describe what they went through. Or, they can't process what happened and articulate it. 

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  Sara Metzger -2 years ago

  Someone asks...

  Is what you are describing called intuition?

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